As of late even though it's obviously always been an issue. The over population of one faction is making it less attractive to enjoy my time in game anymore. I left Vanu to play NC just because I was always locked out in queue in the Training Map. Now I find myself fighting against factions with 57% or more population while the other two faction have less than 20%. As I see it we should only be able to limit one faction per server. (Would have to move alts and main chacters around with either a month lock per transfer or paid.) Even with a server merge the population has dwindled down since first year of PS2. ***But this is just my opinion and it probably wont matter. If you want to rant please don't waste your time. I'll forget I made this post.***
Whew. What server are you on? I've not seen it get that bad. I'm on Emerald and typically play Vanu as they have lowest pop. What I think may help: At ASP 100, you get to unlock a BR 40 character on any other faction. This jumpstart would encourage vets to switch teams for balance.
I really wish more outfits would embrace multi-faction play to create a better and more equally populated playing field.
Oh boy. You might get crucified for suggesting that. That's 4th factioning man! Dirty cheaters / haxors do that. My outfit does ops six nights a week and on 1-2 of those (depending on week) we play other factions. Sometimes on those days the other two factions are overpopping and we end up right back on VS. On the days we do end up on the other factions we catch an epic pile of **** from those factions. All manner of accusations like 4th factioning, or deliberately throwing the alert because we didn't do XYZ instead of ABC or something like that. The crap spills over onto Reddit arguments and it's just pathetic and sad.
We should just all be randoms and spawn into a "balanced faction system" in other words you pick your faction, but you don't just play for that faction. You play as mercenaries!!!! But squads can deploy together into whatever faction needs them as long as it's balanced. Same number of squads or balance for size of squads etc.
I have posts going back on this issue for years. SOE did something to address this when it became an issue in PS1, DBG have done nothing with it as an issue in PS2. Playing VS on Miller is only a good idea if you like being 2 to 1 most of the time. Failing to address population imbalances and the blatant hacking going on again makes me question why I renewed my sub again last month. I have never died to so many HS from automatics and no scope close rifle shots in the last 2 months in all the years playing PS.
Right now on MIller, midday Sunday. If you play VS winning any kind of alert is a miracle. This means anyone playing is at a disadvantage since no goodies but more importantly its why we are seeing people stop playing of jump empire. On average we are down another few percent than we were 12 months ago and the outfits are now pretty much inactive. Seeing anything but the occasional DIG platoon and command chat is silent.
